Main description:

- first volume to address the philosophical and psychological parameters of Critical Theory in psychoanalysis - broad market potential, namely academics and scholars in a variety of disciplines with interdisciplinary interests i.e. philosophers, psychoanalysts, political scientists, cultural theorists, sociologists, psychologists, religious studies

Contents:

Preface 1. Psychoanalysis and the Frankfurt School 2. Communism and Ambivalence: Freud, Marxism, and Aggression 3. Recapitulation and the Vicissitudes of Progress, from Freud to the Frankfurt School: "The Germ of the Regression" 4. Analytical Psychology and the Dialectic of Enlightment 5. Dysrecognition and Pathos 6. Critical Theory and Anti-Semitiism: Implications for Politics, Education, and Psychoanalysis 7. Critical Theory, Left-Wing Authoritarianism, and Anti-Semitism 8. The Evolutionary Anthropology of Erich Fromm: The Frankfurt School, Second Nature, and the Existential Crises of Consciousness 9. Colonizing the American Psyche: Virtue and the Problem of Consumer Capitalism 10. No Sex Without Coffee: The One Nature and its Superstructures: Elements of Freudian Materialism 11. Shrinking Vistas: Critical Theory, Psychoanalysis, and the Postmodern Mire 12. Mapping the White Unconscious: Critical Race Theory, Whiteness Studies, and Psychoanalysis 13. Critical Theory and Contemporary Psychoanalysis